134 - Interview With First-Time Home Buyer Dealing With Rising Interest Rates
How to Buy a Home: The #1 First Time Home Buyer Podcast
David Sidoni
4.8 • 891 Ratings
🗓️ 11 October 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
It's good to be over-prepared when you’re buying a house. It is one of the biggest purchases of your life, so educating yourself on the whole process is a good way to start. And buying your first home can be challenging. You start with a plan and you're six months into it, and WHAM! The whole landscape changes and suddenly all your math goes out the window and your budget spreadsheet is worthless. Join David Sidoni as he talks to first-time homebuyer David about how he bought his house once interest rates and prices decided to make big changes. Hear how this first-timer weathered the storm and stopped renting, even with a shifting market.
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| 0:00.0 | When you're buying your first home, things can change all the time. But what do you do if you're |
| 0:04.2 | working and saving on a buying plan for six months? And then right when you're ready to find |
| 0:10.4 | your dream home and start making offers, the entire financial and housing markets change. |
| 0:16.4 | I know most of the time people think that's it. You're screwed. Actually, here's an interview with |
| 0:20.7 | a listener. You get great tips david who started planning and then had to adjust because right |
| 0:26.6 | when he was ready to buy suddenly interest rates were full two and a half percent higher and prices |
| 0:32.7 | were 10 percent higher so it's tip time with David and David. |
| 0:38.4 | Let's go. |
| 0:54.0 | Hello, everybody. Welcome to another edition of, oh my God, this dude bought a house. |
| 0:59.2 | Brought to you by the How to Buy a Home podcast. |
| 1:01.5 | We're very, very excited to talk to my friend. |
| 1:04.4 | He's the other David. |
| 1:05.6 | He's the better David, the East Coast version. |
| 1:08.6 | David, usually I like to do instead of a little introduction because |
| 1:11.9 | people came here for the information. So everybody, this is David. He bought a house. Tell us what |
| 1:18.9 | was probably the biggest thing that you felt like you learned in the process of buying a home? |
| 1:23.6 | I'm starting with a whammy. Yeah, I know. I'm sure there's a lot I can throw out here, but honestly, |
| 1:29.5 | for me, is budgeting was the biggest thing, just figuring out what your budget was and how you can |
| 1:35.0 | even make it happen. And so that was a big thing that your podcast really helped me through and |
| 1:40.2 | a few other guides as well. Oh, I'm always curious because I've got my guides. |
| 1:45.2 | Did you have any, was it family? |
| 1:47.1 | Was it friends? |
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